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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0024543090823 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Languages: Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 16, 2003 Running Time: 105 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: 1999 Average Rating:
 Rating: - Unusually interesting ...Yet another interesting movie from Mexico. The story revolved around Esperanza whose daughter dies mysteriously and suddenly to a seemingly unknown virus. Surprisingly, the medics do not allow her to see the body lest spreading the unknown virus and to add the surprise the doctor who operated on Esperanza's daughter goes missing as well. Esperanza receives a vision from St. Jude urging her to find her daughter who may not be dead after all. This triggers of a mother's journey to seek her lovely daughter. ... Read More Rating: - Bellisimo!Great movie....to watch when you're in the moood for a good movie. I must admit, I did fall asleep the first two times I tried to view it. That's b/c the beginning it's a bit slow, but trust me, it gets really good. The acting is good. it's comical and deep. not stupid funny, but funny. the colors, textures, scenes are sooo realistic and beautiful. it portrays Mexico in different colors. i would highly recommend it. Rating: - An unusual, but a very interesting story! The other reviewers have given a good description of the storyline so I won't repeat it. I did find the storyline to be incredibly unique and so un-Hollywood. In a nutshell, it's the story of a very religious woman, Esperanza, who works as a prostitute in the brothels of Tijuana and Los Angeles in search of her 12-year-old daughter. It was amazing to see the internal conflict that Esperanza has with herself working as a prostitute and her strong religious beliefs. This is a woman who is ... Read More Rating: - A Hint of the Latin American Magical RealismSANTITOS is a charmingly rendered film based on a novel by Maria Amparo Escandon and directed by Alejandro Springall, a film that has a parable of a story told in a magical realism manner that is so endearing in Latin American culture. This particular film comes to us from Mexico and is filmed in Vera Cruz, Tijuana, and Los Angeles. Briefly, Esperanza (or "hope" in translation and played by Dolores Heredia) has lost her 13-year-old daughter to a mysterious virus during a routine tonsillectomy. Mystery surrounds ... Read More Rating: - journey of the heartThis film received many international awards, including the Latin American Cinema Award at the Sundance Film Festival, where it had its premiere in 1999. It is the directorial debut of Alejandro Springall, and the screenplay is by Maria Amparo Escandon, based on her novel. It is about a bizarre journey from Vera Cruz to Los Angeles and back again, as the naïve, childlike, widow Esperanza seeks to find out what happened to her daughter, and relies on supernatural visions to guide her, which eventually prove that ... Read More |
